🌤️ Guten Morgen, Berlin!

Here’s your quick update on what’s happening around the city on Sunday, September 07 - from urgent alerts to stories in the subreddit. Today we went through 100+ articles, posts and events so you don't have to. Let’s dive in.

🇩🇪 Closures throughout the weekend Traffic on S-Bahn lines in the north of Berlin disrupted due to software change

Berlin’s S-Bahn suspended service on northern sections of lines S1, S2, and S8 for the weekend, with replacement buses running from Saturday 5:00 am to Monday 1:30 am.

The shutdown supports software changes to commission new electronic interlockings under the ESTW S8 (North) modernization. The upgrades are intended to make route control more reliable and efficient.

Service is scheduled to resume Monday at 1:30 am; replacement buses cover Frohnau–Oranienburg, Pankow–Bernau, and Pankow–Hohen Neuendorf during the outage. (Tagesspiegel, 1 minute read)

🇩🇪 240-meter-high skyscrapers: Will Berlin soon look like Dubai?

Berlin architect Christoph Langhof unveiled a proposal for 12 residential towers along the former Tempelhof Airport’s curved terminal, adding roughly 5,000 apartments while preserving the historic hangars and keeping distance from the open Tempelhofer Feld.

The concept seeks to ease Berlin’s housing shortage and reinterpret landmark protections around 1930s-era structures. It arrives amid a long-running dispute over developing Tempelhofer Feld, where an ideas competition produced six plans, only two of which propose new construction.

All six designs will be exhibited in September, after which city policymakers will decide how to proceed, potentially revisiting a 2014 voter-approved building ban. (BILD, 2 minute read)

🇩🇪 Magical nights over Berlin possible again The aurora borealis season starts in late summer

Berlin and Brandenburg residents could see auroras Sunday night as geomagnetic activity rises, with a roughly 3% forecast chance and clear skies aiding visibility.

Auroras have become more frequent at these latitudes as the sun nears the peak of its 11-year cycle; strong G3-G4 geomagnetic storms can push displays as far south as Germany. They form when solar wind particles excite oxygen and nitrogen high in the atmosphere.

Elevated solar activity is expected into 2026, bringing more viewing opportunities, along with risks to satellites, GPS, and power grids, so watch for clear, dark nights and space weather alerts. (Tagesspiegel, 3 minute read)

⚡ Quick Hits

📅 Events Today

💬 What Berliners Are Talking About

🎨 Fun Fact: Berlin is a global street art capital. The city even opened an Urban Nation museum for urban art in 2017. From the East Side Gallery’s murals on the Berlin Wall to commissioned works on buildings across town, Berlin’s vibrant graffiti and street art scene is world-renowned.

👋 That's a wrap!

Thanks for reading Berlin News Daily!
👉 Subscribe for free to get tomorrow’s news in your inbox.
💌 Know someone who’d love this? Forward it and help us grow!

Got feedback or a tip? Reply to this email or write us at: news@berlindaily.org